Kitchener Ward 10 All-Candidates Meeting: Sept 19, 2018

All-candidates meeting for Kitchener City Council, Ward 10. The meeting was recorded at the Queen Street Commons on September 19, 2018. In order of opening statement, the candidates were Sarah Marsh and Peter Meier. The moderator was Beth Weisberg.

00:05:00 - Opening Statements

00:11:10 - Snow removal on sidewalks.

00:14:49 - How often do you agree with Councillor Gazzola? On what?

00:17:51 - How would you champion change in the planning and development process?

00:20:35 - Marsh: You recused yourself on Breithaupt Block 3. How will you not rrecuse yourself for other developments?

00:22:41 - Meier: What are your first Ward 10 priorities?

00:25:12 - Marsh: Comment on making affordable housing available with the stroke of a pen?

00:28:48 - Will you vote with the bloc, or on your morals and values?

00:31:02 - Marsh: Will the notwithstanding clause affect this area?

00:33:02 - Community involvement and achievements in Ward 10 before running for council

00:36:29 - Cambridge funded a study to determine how close to locate a safe consumption site. Will you wait for the study to finish before putting a safe consumption site in Kitchener?

00:41:08 - Corporate naming rights of public spaces.

00:43:59 - Why not let drug users sign Do Not Recuscitate orders so they die when overdosing? Isn't it cruel to keep reviving them?

00:48:10 - Meier: What will you do if elected. Marsh: What have you done?